Katherine Kirby
Senior Software Engineer at RedWeek.com
Brookfield, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Kirby is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building maintainable, adaptable systems and modernizing legacy platforms across Perl, Python, and cloud environments. She has driven migrations to Azure and pioneered serverless patterns on AWS, combining hands-on coding with improvements in testing, logging, and deployment practices. Comfortable in both legacy and greenfield contexts, she excels at pragmatic systems design that balances long-term maintainability with shipping on schedule. Known for collaborative leadership, she mentors peers and builds strong cross-functional relationships to deliver business impact. Based in Brookfield, Illinois, she brings a steady track record of transforming backend processes and operational culture in regulated, data-heavy environments.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Oregon State University
English, perl
Github Skills (5)
perl-module5
parse3
carp3
parser2
perl2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
katekirby/Carp-Parse
Feb 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:14 commits in 8 months
carpperlparserparseperl-module
katekirby/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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